Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 guw
Gun Language gungbe
Gun is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Gun is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Gun language
Gun (gungbe) is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 362nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Tsimihety Malagasy (1.6 million) and ahead of Lampung Nyo (1.5 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Fongbeic group within the Kwa Volta-Congo branch.
Where is Gun spoken?
Gun is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Benin (650,000).
Gun is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Gun is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Fon, Ci Gbe, Defi Gbe, Ewe, Aja (Benin), Akan and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 guw.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.